DESCRIPTION

Creates a new bare Git repository under gerrit.basePath, using
the project name supplied. The newly created repository is empty
(has no commits), but is registered in the Gerrit database so that
the initial commit may be uploaded for review, or initial content
can be pushed directly into a branch.

If replication is enabled, this command also connects to each of
the configured remote systems over SSH and uses command line git
on the remote system to create the empty repository.

ACCESS

SCRIPTING

This command is intended to be used in scripts.

OPTIONS

<NAME>

Required; name of the new project to create. If name ends
with .git the suffix will be automatically removed.

--branch

-b

Name of the initial branch(es) in the newly created project.
Several branches can be specified on the command line.
If several branches are specified then the first one becomes HEAD
of the project. If none branches are specified then default value
('master') is used.

--owner

-o

Identifier of the group(s) which will initially own this repository.

This can be:

the UUID of the group

the legacy numeric ID of the group

the name of the group if it is unique

The specified group(s) must already be defined within Gerrit.
Several groups can be specified on the command line.

Defaults to what is specified by repository.*.ownerGroup
in gerrit.config.

--parent

-p

Name of the parent project to inherit access rights
through. If not specified, the parent is set to the default
project All-Projects.

--suggest-parents

-S

Suggest parent candidates. This option cannot be used with
other arguments. Print out a list of projects that are
already parents to other projects, thus it can help the user
find a suitable parent for the new project.

--permissions-only

Create the project only to serve as a parent for other
projects. The new project’s Git repository will be
initialized to have 'HEAD' point to 'refs/meta/config'.

--description

-d

Initial description of the project. If not specified,
no description is stored.

Description values containing spaces should be quoted in single quotes
('). This most likely requires double quoting the value, for example
--description "'A description string'".

--submit-type

-t

Action used by Gerrit to submit an approved change to its
destination branch. Supported options are:

If enabled, Gerrit will try to perform a 3-way merge of text
file content when a file has been modified by both the
destination branch and the change being submitted. This
option only takes effect if submit type is not
FAST_FORWARD_ONLY. Disabled by default.

--use-contributor-agreements

--ca

If enabled, authors must complete a contributor agreement
on the site before pushing any commits or changes to this
project. Disabled by default.

--use-signed-off-by

--so:
If enabled, each change must contain a Signed-off-by line
from either the author or the uploader in the commit message.
Disabled by default.

--create-new-change-for-all-not-in-target

--ncfa:
If enabled, a new change is created for every commit that is not in
the target branch. If the pushed commit is a merge commit, this flag is
ignored for that push. To avoid accidental creation of a large number
of open changes, this option also does not accept merge commits in the
commit chain.
Disabled by default.

--require-change-id

--id

Require a valid Change-Id footer
in any commit uploaded for review. This does not apply to
commits pushed directly to a branch or tag.

--empty-commit

Creates an initial empty commit for the Git repository of the
project that is newly created.

--max-object-size-limit

Define maximum Git object size for this project. Pushes containing an
object larger than this limit will be rejected. This can be used to
further limit the global
receive.maxObjectSizeLimit
and cannot be used to increase that globally set limit.

Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.

--plugin-config

A plugin configuration parameter that should be set for this
project. The plugin configuration parameter must be specified in
the format '<plugin-name>.<parameter-name>=<value>'. Only
parameters that are explicitly declared by a plugin can be set.
Multiple --plugin-config options can be specified to set multiple
plugin parameters.

Note that it is necessary to quote the description twice. The local
shell needs double quotes around the value to ensure the single quotes
are passed through SSH as-is to the remote Gerrit server, which uses
the single quotes to delimit the value.

REPLICATION

If the replication plugin is installed, the plugin will attempt to
perform remote repository creation by a Bourne shell script:

For this to work successfully the remote system must be able to run
arbitrary shell scripts, and must have git in the user’s PATH
environment variable. Administrators could also run this command line
by hand to establish a new empty repository.

A custom extension or plugin may also be developed to implement the
NewProjectCreatedListener extension point and handle custom logic
for remote repository creation.